Those where manufactured by TSMC, do they shifted the fabrication to SMIC 14nm? or another 28nm fab?
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I don't know, they were profitable in 2014 but in 2015 their Weibo just stopped.
Xinshuo ATD series maskless direct writing lithography equipment is based on the advanced second-generation lithography direct writing technology, and realizes direct writing lithography through spatial light modulator scanning technology.
This series of products saves tedious mask processing steps in application, and has the characteristics of high efficiency, advanced technology and flexible application compared with single-beam direct writing. This series of products adopts the high-power LED/LD (wavelength 405nm) or excimer laser (wavelength 248nm) light source of Xinshuo's patented technology, which can reach 0.20um resolution and 40nm overlay accuracy. It can be applied to mask making, micro-nano processing, MEMS, LED, biochip, etc. for large-scale integrated circuit 90nm process node.
This is the first time I have seen someone using a KrF excimer laser in a maskless lithography system, that machine has to be expensive as hell. What happened to this company?
Maybe change their name, But still a KrF excimer laser for DWL system is insanely costly for a fairly slow method of lithography like 100-300mm2/min, is faster than the 1mm2/min of EBL but still slow.
Yep. And it's going to be years, in the most optimistic scenario for a set of non-Western manufacturing equipment, software and materials.
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Sanan to invest in mini/microLED
The largest China-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Sanan Optoelectronics will invest up to CNY7.9 billion (US$1.24 billion) to set up production capacity for miniLED and microLED chips at its production base in central China, according to industry sources.
The annual production capacity to be set up consists of 1.61 million GaN-based mini/microLED epitaxial wafers, 750,000 GaAs-based epitaxial wafers and 84,000 miniLED backlight units (BLU) for 4K display, the sources said.
Sanan has become a supplier of miniLED backlighting applications for Apple, Samsung Electronics and TCL, the sources noted.
For microLED R&D, Sanan has established a joint venture with China-based OLED panel maker Visionox Technology and another with China-based LCD panel maker China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), the sources indicated.
China-based EMS provider Wingtech Technology, by virtue of manufacturing automotive semiconductor components for many years, has stepped into development and production of min LED-backlit LCD panels and microLED panels for automotive displays, the sources said.
No quite, like i said before people underestimate how fast time pass, i remember having read a German few weeks ago that said that Chinese SME are now 8% of the market in 2022 from almost zero in 2017-2018, do not sound like much but is an outstanding growth.
@tokenanalyst especially the pie is bigger Now than in 2017.
I would recommend to grab a GPU while prices are falling because looks like things are going to get a bit more scarce.
The Great Wall wasn't built in a day. Chinese semiconductor industry will get there in due time..
Just continue to invest in R&D and work hard to reach the finish line
Just continue to invest in R&D and work hard to reach the finish line
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